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What's happened to modern art?
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Review - Institute of Public Affairs
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September 1, 2008
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The problem with 'controversial' art isn't that it is offensive, writes Benjamin Hourigan. The problem is that it is too often mediocre.
Photographs of naked thirteen-year-old girls, crucifixes immersed in urine, and videos of chickens being decapitated: this is modern art.
So you'd think, at least, if you went by what gets the most attention in the news, and never visited art galleries or thumbed through art books. You might even get the impression that artists are mostly depraved or at best loopy. And you probably wouldn't be too worried when you see photographs in the papers of police confiscating artworks from galleries.
It's the wrong attitude, but understandable-because in many cases, ...